Serie Paraguay

Paraguayan painter and engraver, Carlos Colombino's training in architecture had a considerable influence on his painting style. Although he studied art in Madrid from1964 to 1965 and in Paris from1969 to 1970, he is basically self-taught as an artist. After the 1950s, when he went through an initial phase that oscillated between a wildly dramatic style and one that favored formal organization, he settled on a more stable personal style in the 1960s. His most frequently used technique was xylopintura, involving the use of wood-engraving tools to cut into plywood; the layers and the end- and cross-grain absorbed dyes and paints in different ways, and an image emerged from the process.